Garbage-cremator.



PATENTED a, 1905.

W. D. WALTERS. GARBAGE GREMATOR. APPLICATION FILED in. so, 1905.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM 1). WALTERS,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GARBAGE-CREMATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed January 30,1905. Serial No. 243,196.

To all whom it ill/1,7 concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. WALTERS, a citizen of the United States, residing. in

' Chicago, Cook county, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garb age-Cremators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 shows my said new device in front elevation, partly in section, and connected to a water-heater. Fig. 2 shows the same in sectional side elevation, the cutting plane being indicated by the broken line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Like reference-letters denote like parts throughout.

The object of my invention is to provide a garbage crematory for private houses, flatbuildings, and the like which shall be easily managed and economical in results.

To attain said desirable ends, I construct my said new device in substantially the following manner, namely: I construct a rectangular brick structure whereof the front wall consists of a cast-iron plate or plates (1 b 0, through the corners of which are passed long bolts j, which pass through the rear wall, where they are screw-threaded and held by nuts. In this case the ash-pit a and the furnace I) have a single front superimposed by a part c, which closes the front of the crematory-chamber c. The latter has high and wide double doors g, through which the garbage is thrown into the cremationchamber.

The furnace-chamber b has a door 19, and the furnace-chamber itself consists of two water-tube heads g g, which are cast-iron pipes into which are secured the lower pipes d and the upper pipes 61 in a series extending across the entire width of the interior of the structure. Said pipes are connected at the rear wall by vertical pipes which said sets of pipe together form three sides of the furnace b, the cast-iron front I) forming the fourth side and the two remaining sides being formed of pipes e, one above and conends connected to the head 9 and terminating at the other end in the head g. Said heads 9 g are connected by pipes n with a water-heater m, from which hot water may be drawn for the use of the house. Gratebars d between the pipes d rest upon ledges 7L, formed in the brick walls A of the exterior structure, and are at their tops on about the same level as the tops of the tubes 61. I

The top of the four walls A is laid with T- bars 76, which rest on the side walls and hold bricks which form the cover of the crematory and hold the chimney l of the crematory.

By making five of the six sides of my firebox of water-pipe nearly all the heat of the fuel is utilized, the water so heated being employed for useful purposes. I am also able to further economize and extend the life of my furnace by removing its front I) and withdrawing and inverting said connected pipe structure and then putting the grate-bars d between the pipes d The hot pipes (Z hold and quickly dry the garbage, and from them the small and dry stuff falls into the furnace to add fuel to the fire, while that which is brittle will be broken' up by a rake or poker and fall into the fur nace, and that which will not break up in such ways may be taken with a shovel out of the crematory-chamber c and throwninto "the furnace.

That I claim is In a garbage-crematory, the combination with inclosing walls, one of which is removable, of a removable and reversible fire-box comprising an upper and a lower header and a series of pipes said headers and pipes arranged to form five of the six sides of said fire-box, a watertank connected to said headers and a garbage-chamber above said fire-box.

WILLIAM D. WALTERS. Witnesses:

CHARLOTTE MITCHELL, l/VM. ZIMMERMAN.

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